or, to interfere with congress, deciding on the rightful. person but in the end of the day, it all comes down to that violence, of january six. and i think that prosecutors are signaling, with this target letter. they are going to hold donald trump accountable, or attempt to, a jury of his peers. we shall see, that conspiracy word keeps coming. up norm, please stay with me, we ve got a lot more to talk about. because up next, one of trump s former legal adviser in the white house is going to join me live, to react. plus, republicans on the hill are calling the letter, in their words not mine, . baloney. and now, trump is strategizing with them. and michael joins me to react to this looming indictment. this is a cnn special live coverage. this is how tosin lost 33 pounds on noom weight. i m tosin.
its election interference. it s never been done like this in the history of our country. and it s a disgrace. what s happening to our country, whether it s the borders, or the elections, or all kinds of things like this, with the doj has become a weapon for the democrats an absolute weapon. and it seems that every time my polls you know, we are leading by a lot. we are leading in a lot by a place called iowa. a lot. and not only with the republicans, but we are leading against biden by a tremendous amount. they haven t seen anything like it. and they feel, i guess, they want to demean and diminish and frighten people. but they don t frighten us. because we are going to make america great again. let s start off with the fact that trump is a target, we know now, in his own words, in the january 6th investigation. joining me now to discuss is cnn legal analyst, norm eisen. you recall he was the house judiciary special counsel in trump s first impeachment trial. norm, let s start at
top the government out of it. but, knowing as we do here, the mountain of evidence against donald trump. the seriousness, he said it, first time in american history a former president gets a target letter. he is going to get charged, that s what target means. allegations, substantial evidence. norm, standby, we have more to talk about on the sphere important issue. i want to head down to florida, though, and get the reaction from the trump world tonight. because that s where paula reid is. paula, what are you hearing? well laura, i was in court for about two hours during this first hearing, before judge aileen cannon. and it s pretty clear from what i saw today, that this cases unlikely to go to trial in december, which is when prosecutor said they would be ready to take this case before a jury. the judge has seemed sympathetic to arguments from defense attorneys that that was just too soon. she called that timeline, quote, compressed, and said cases like this just take more time
promptly issue an order on the matter. norm eisen and brandon van grack are back with me right now. norm, let s start with you. there is a big divide, right. there is the august date she wanted to state initially. there is the december date by the prosecutor. and then there is trump who says, after the election. was that ever realistic, after the election? no. good, one word answer. but that doesn t mean he won t get, it laura. because this is a judge, judge cannon, who has already made a pattern of pretty far out decisions, favoring donald from, in the litigation over the search warrant at mar-a-lago. she was struck down twice, by a very conservative, 11th circuit appellate panel. because she so favored him. and, who knows what she s going to do, but he shouldn t get it. why shouldn t he get it? and i think it goes to the december peace. but what we just talked about is the end date. but, the impart the partner
reporter: this, just one of nine wildfires right now burning across the golden state. up norm in sonoma county, 49 structures destroyed by the contain cad kincade fire. nearly 22,000 acres burning. the local utility pg&e has now reported a high transmission line just seven minutes before the fire broke out and near the point of origin. we re at this point, we do not know exactly what happened. reporter: hundreds of thousands of californians have had their power shut off in high-risk areas in the opens of preventing breakouts. right now, across california, thousands of firefighters, still fighting flames. still waiting for the next configuration. the utility company mentioned in nic s report is now mentioning historic winds over the weekend that could make the situation worse if that s indeed